From left to right: Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat in Camp David, 7 September 1978.

Menachem Begin (left) shakes hands with Sayed Marei, President Anwar al-Sadat’s personal secretary and envoy in Oslo, during the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, 10 December 1978 in Oslo, Norway. From left to right: Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat in Camp David, 7 September 1978.

Menachem Begin was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Mohammad Anwar Al-Sadat, for negotiating a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel in 1978. Menachem Begin Full name: Menachem BeginBorn: 16 August 1913, Brest Litovsk, Russian Empire (now Belarus)Died: 9 March 1992, Tel Aviv, IsraelDate awarded: 27 October 1978 Seeking peace with Egypt In 1973,…

Mohammad Anwar al-Sadat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Menachem Begin, for negotiating a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel in 1978. Anwar al-Sadat Full name: Mohamed Anwar al-SadatBorn: 25 December 1918, Mit Abu al-Kawm, EgyptDied: 6 October 1981, Cairo, EgyptDate awarded: 27 October 1978 Seeking peace with Israel In 1967, Israel seised…

Isaac Bashevis Singer signing autographs at a reception during Nobel Week in Stockholm, 9 December 1978.

The 15 meter Holmdel horn antenna at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey was built in 1959 for pioneering work in communication satellites for the NASA ECHO I. In 1964, radio astronomers Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation with it, for which they were awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize…

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Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson, 1/2 of the prize The interference you see on an analogue television screen as you try to tune in to channels might seem an unlikely form of time travel, but within this static hiss lies a glimpse of the first moments of the universe. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson’s…

Interview transcript I just would like you, Professor Penzias, to start off with your great discovery. It has been described as one of the biggest discoveries the last century. It has changed the way we look at the universe. It confirmed the big bang theory. When did you and how did you…

17 October 1978 has decided to award the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics in two equal parts: one to Professor Piotr Leontevitch Kapitsa, Institute of Physical Problems, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics; and the other, to be shared equally between Dr Arno A.…